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May 27, 2017 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Port to Port stage 3: The ‘Queen’ stage

Related Event: Port to Port MTB
Port to Port MarathonMTB Photo: Tim Bardsley-Smith

After a day up and down the mountains of the Hunter Valley yesterday, riders would have no respite today with the longest stage of the race on the menu including a lap of the world class Awaba singletrack and an epic climb up to the slopes of Mount Faulk. Last night riders and spectators alike […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, Hunter Valley, marathon mountain biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Newcastle, Port to Port, Racing, Shimano, Stage Race, Visit NSW

May 19, 2017 By Ben Thomas Leave a Comment

Belgian Mountainbike Challenge – The Battle of La Roche Part 1

Related Event: Belgian Mountainbike Challenge

Belgian Mountainbike Challenge is billed as the toughest bike race in the Benelux but I was left wondering if it’s actually the toughest in the World!? The Ardennes is a famous location for road racing and has a rich history of mountain bike racing with the town of Houffalize hosting the UCI MTB World Cup […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Ardennes, Belgian Mountain Bike Challenge, belgium, cycling, marathon, MTB, Racing, Stage Racing, UCI, XCO

May 16, 2017 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Five reasons Alice Springs is worth the trip

Related Event: The Redback
The Redback

While Alice Springs might be the closest town to every beach in Australia, it’s also prohibitively far from all the nation’s capital cities. For many of us, this means a longish flight or maybe two; it means a fair bit of holiday budget sunk into airfares and accommodation; and it means we might think twice […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alice, Alice Springs, desert, easter in the alice, LEITA, mountain biking, Racing, Redback, Singletrack, Stage Race, uluru

May 3, 2017 By Ben Thomas 1 Comment

Transylvanian Experience: Faget UCI XCM Series

Related Event: Faget Marathon - UCI XCM Series

As a semi professional racer I have limited opportunities to travel due to other work commitments, I have limited sponsorship resources, for these and other reasons its crucial to make the most of every race weekend. When issues occur like teammates being ill or bike mechanical it’s incredible frustrating but when race organisers let you and […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: marathon, marathon mountain biking, mountain biking, MTB, Mud, Race, Racing, Romania, UCI, XCM

April 26, 2017 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Crash course: Imogen Smith on her season-ending accident

Related Event: Australian XCM Championships
Imogen on trainer

Seven weeks ago, I had a big crash in a women’s criterium that ended my racing season before it really began. Early in the final 200m sprint, where I was sitting in the top 10 (I thought I’d be safe there), there was a surge from behind and riders moved sideways. It took the girl […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: accident, Crash, criterium, goals, injury, MarathonMTB, MTB, Racing, Training

January 29, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

National XCO Racers back up in Armidale

Armidale’s University of New England campus hosted its second round of the National XCO Series today on a day that began with perfect sunny skies but gave way to brief storms in the afternoon. Today’s track included some elements of yesterday’s course, with the same start loop and a few early trails in common, but […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: armidale, MTBA, National Series, Racing, XCO

January 19, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

What to pack for The Pioneer – or other stage races

Related Event: The Pioneer

A couple of weeks ago I covered what you need to take as essentials for The Pioneer – things you’ll have on hand each day on the bike, either as mandatory equipment, or items that will help get you to the end of the race if things go pear shaped. But The Pioneer is a […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: New Zealand, pioneer, PioneerNZ, Racing, Stage Race

December 31, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Australian National XCO Series to set Orange ablaze

For 2017 the Australian National Series has taken a slightly different approach. Gone are some of the more standard locations like Mt Stromlo, the You Yangs, or even Pemberton. Instead, Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) are championing more double-headers, with 3 weekends of two races, then a standalone Oceania Championships at Toowoomba, and then National Championships […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MTBA, Orange, Racing, XCO

December 24, 2016 By Lomas Wefing Leave a Comment

The pull of marathon MTB racing

Lomas Wefing 2016 MarathonMTB

To paraphrase Dan Atherton, I couldn’t wait to get school out of the way so I could get on with life, specifically racing and training full time. I finished my Abitur (German High School finals) in May having half-heartedly prepared for both the exams and early season racing. My first race was round one of […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Lomas Wefing, MarathonMTB, Racing, Training, XCM, XCO

December 20, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Sipping cappuccino in starting block A

Related Event: Craft BIKE Transalp

“I will not rest until I sip cappuccino in starting block A” This was a strong statement, delivered by a friend I made at my first mountain bike stage race, the 2008 Transalp. Thomas Dooley had uttered the sentence with the mix of determination and irony that I would come to learn typified his personality. […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, block a, MarathonMTB, MTB, Racing, Stage Race

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